Trump and Mamdani's News Conference: Read the Transcript

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Mr. Mamdani: I appreciate all efforts toward peace, and I shared with President Trump, when I spoke to Trump voters on Hillside Avenue -- including one of whom was a pharmacist that spoke about how President Trump's father actually went to that pharmacy not too far from Jamaica Estates -- that people were tired of seeing our tax dollars fund endless wars.
57% : And I shared with the president in our meeting about the concern that many New Yorkers have of wanting their tax dollars to go toward the benefit of New Yorkers and their ability to afford basic dignity.
56% : What I will say is that I'm very much interested in property tax reform because what we see right now in New York City is a system that is so inequitable that it can't even stand up in court.
54% : Mr. Mamdani: No, we intend to create a fair property tax system, because we want a New York City that is not only fair and equitable, but also one that every New Yorker can afford.
53% : I can tell you, I am someone who is a democratic socialist, I have been very open about that.
51% : And the president and I spoke about the importance of not only building more housing but also making sure that regulation of housing is something that is manageable to actually get through and not the cause of yet another wait that we see in our city -- Reporter:
48% : You both have differences when it comes to ICE agents in New York City.
48% : Would you work with ICE then? Mr. Mamdani: We discussed ICE and New York City, and I spoke about how the laws that we have in New York City allow for New York City government to speak to the federal administration for about 170 serious crimes.
45% : More than ICE, per se, we discussed crime.
44% : To be clear, you're continuing this idea of race-based property taxes.
43% : Mr. Mamdani, anti-Israel protesters just targeted a synagogue in New York.
42% : I want to ask the mayor-elect about a House resolution, just passed overwhelmingly, to condemn socialism -- including with 86 Democrats, all of House Dem leadership and the minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, despite his endorsement of you.
40% : It's against socialism.
32% : Mr. Mamdani called ICE a rogue government entity.
32% : I want to know, one of the policies as well that Mayor-elect Mamdani talked a number of times about on the campaign was shifting the tax burden for property taxes from what he called minority communities to white-based communities, and putting more taxes on white people.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.